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Incidentally
by Monolycus on Feb 09, 2006 - 09:11 PM
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I want to assure you that it was not my intention to be as snarky and dismissive as my comment came across to me after I re-read it.
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Re: I Drink, Therefore, I Am
by W0rmW00d (allchaka@hotmail.com)
on Feb 13, 2006 - 04:31 AM
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Yes, it is precisely this that gets to me... There's no real reason that it should, I suppose that everyone has to deal with it, I just find it very difficult.
It is the damnably abitrary nature of so much of what is accepted that upsets me because I see constant hypocricy and the entailed idiocy around me all the time. These things prevent me from living in a way that I would like to live because it would preclude my involvement in society to reject so much of what affects it. (Most people I know probably consider me an entertaining sideshow rather than a friend because I go on about it so much whenever an example particularly riles me, think alcohol fuelled, unfocused Maddox-style raving)...Oh well, I suppose its back to praying again.
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Re: I Drink, Therefore, I Am
by Kira on Feb 17, 2006 - 08:06 AM
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Totally unrelated to this article, but I was thinking the other day about my own personal opinions on bullshitters versus compulsive liars. It always seemed contradictory to me because I love bullshitters, but compulsive liars annoy the crap out of me.
Saying that bullshitters simply have no regard for truth or falsity is a good way to explain it. For me there is also the question of intent; bullshitters seem more inclined to want to entertain, whereas compulsive liars are usually out to deceive for their own gain. The lines can certainly be blurred in some instances, but for the most part good bullshitting is as much of an art form as good storytelling.
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